Quotes About Acquaintance

That was our first step toward better acquaintance. He would call on me sometimes in the evenings instead of running about London with his fellow-clerks; and before long, speaking of himself as a

That was our first step toward better acquaintance. He would

I should have known: no escape from past acquaintance. What you were is forever who you are.

If you're serious about shaking off your foreignness, Salad baba, then don't fall into some kind of rootless limbo instead. Okay? We're all here. We're right in front of you. You should really try and make an adult acquaintance with this place, this time. Try and embrace this city, as it is, not some childhood memory that makes you both nostalgic and sick. Draw it close. The actually existing place.

Sólo hace dos meses que la conozco ––replicó el conde. ––Y el señor sólo hace cinco minutos que me conoce. No dic e usted más que tonterías. Las mujeres son despiadadas con las personas que no son de su agrado.

Familiarity breeds sentiment before contempt.

acquaintance, n.: A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.

Acquaintance: A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to. A degree of friendship called slight when its object is poor or obscure, and intimate when he is rich or famous.

Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.

Conocido, s. Persona a quien conocemos lo bastante para pedirle dinero prestado, pero no lo suficiente para prestarle. Grado de amistad que llamamos superficial cuando su objeto es pobre y oscuro, e íntimo cuando es rico y famoso.

In my experience, a friend is merely an acquaintance who has yet to betray you.

In my experience, a friend is merely an acquaintance who has yet to betray you. Is that what you are, Harker?

Friends? In my experience, a friend is merely an acquaintance who has yet to betray you.

There's one advantage in having been around as long as I have. Everybody in the Senate knows me, and - I'm going to say something presumptuous, to repeat myself - I think most respect me.

I draw from life - but I always pulp my acquaintance before serving them up. You would never recognize a pig in a sausage.

An acquaintance had become a lover, might become a husband, but would retain all that she had noted in the acquaintance; and love must confirm an old relation rather than reveal a new one.

To some perhaps it may appear a little strained to place this last-mentioned form of attachment on a level of importance with the others, and such persons may be inclined to deny to the homogenic [...] or homosexual love that intense, that penetrating, and at times overmastering character which would entitle it to rank as a great human passion. But in truth this view, when entertained, arises from a want of acquaintance with the actual facts.

Do you know me?

If you didn't know Fred Claire, you didn't know anyone.

I respect Chris Brown. I'd like to call myself a friend - I don't know if I'm allowed to do that.

My friendship with the great actor and director Alan Rickman did not have a particularly auspicious start.

Don't you want to join us? I was recently asked by an acquaintance when he ran across me alone after midnight in a coffeehouse that was already almost deserted. No, I don't, I said.

That was why, if you wanted to keep up a correspondence with him, you couldn't give him any actual news, the kind you would unthinkingly write to even your most distant acquaintance.

Actually William wasn't there for quite a bit of the time initially, he wasn't there for Freshers Week, so it did take a bit of time for us to get to know each other but we did become very close friends from quite early.